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smurky turkey
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90 euro games for us Europeans.... given how the economy is right now I wish them luck. I am sure that the console will be sold out initially but after that I am not sure with those prices.
Or is it just me and does 90 euro seem reasonable to other people here? |
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FireChick
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I just want to know if it's going to be region locked or not.
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Nionel
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Hm. I was expecting the system price to be around this price, but $80 games? That seems a bit much. I suppose this will just be the new normal and I expect other publishers to follow suit and move their games to the $80 mark as well.
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quoss
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I've been super lost about what's a reasonable price for a couple years now. Thinking on that statement and the trend, it tracks to me that we've arrived at 90 euros for a big new game. It also tracks that I can't imagine being able to buy one without feeling like a deathly poor failure. Personal energy stores (the ability to work more as prices increase) only decreases with age so how on earth to have money for anything more than bills and a half liter of coping gin per month. People who can do it, I look forward to reading your game reviews. |
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AiddonValentine
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$450 is perfectly reasonable, and it seems game prices are on a case by case basis. Let's be real here, people are gonna play Mario Kart forever
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Kougeru
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I disagree. I played Mario Kart 8 in 2017 for a dozen hours or so but then only 1-2 hours when the new maps came out. Got boring fast. Not worth $80 no game is worth $80. People will argue inflation but that ignores so many factors such as how much money people actually have on hand to spend on luxury goods which is a lot less now than in the 90s. EVERYTHING costs so much more now. That and the fact that the market is far larger than it was even just 10 years ago. All this already accounts for the increase development costs. All of that already ensures $60-$70 is fine. But that's still not accounting for all the predatory monetization tactics that exist in the gaming industry. When we include microtransations and such, most games shouldn't even be $50. And that all still ignores the fact that most gamers don't play games release in the last 1-2 years. Most people are only buying games at heavy discounts - which makes it's entirely affordable for these game companies (many of which are making record profits nearly yearly) to sell at lower prices from the start. The way the industry works tho, is take as much as possible from the privileged minority on day 1 (and fools who put things on credit) then sell more to everyone else on heavy discount a year + later. Games should not be $80 |
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i got the shivers!
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It is, although Japan has the option of paying 20,000 more yen to get a multi-language edition of the console. Westerners don't seem to have that option and will be forced to only play games from their region. I suspect this is a follow up of them removing overseas payment options on the Switch storefront. Westerners being able to import Japanese games for cheaper would be less money for Nintendo so hey want to shut that down but if Japanese players (expats) who want to buy foreign language games for a higher price are able to do so if they buy the multi-language edition Switch 2. Nintendo has also confirmed that Switch 2 games won't have the game on the cart, the cartridge will only be used as a license check and the game will need to be downloaded from the store which hurts fans of physical media. |
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Avec ou Nous
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As a fellow European: No. I don't think 90 Euro is reasonable at all. No Nintendo game is worth that much to me. No modern video game in general is worth that much to me in fact but at least other platforms eventually have sales so I can eventually get something for far less. I think I'll hold off on getting a Switch 2 for awhile if I ever do end up picking one up. Maybe it'll go the way of the 3DS and not do that great so they'll slash the price. It seems like we might be seeing a return to the 3DS/Wii U era of Nintendo with all these 'features' like paid upgrades to older games and region locking. At the very least Scarlet and Violet's upgrade will be free which makes sense since making people pay to make it actually playable would be such bad optics. The lack of game on the cart certainly makes me question what the point of buying physical is anymore. |
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paulchaested
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Wasn't expecting Nintendo of all companies to open the floodgates for $80-$90 games. That is insane.
Oh man, GTA is going to be $100 huh... |
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GNPixie
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Citation Needed. The only one that I can find that even remotely says that is the Japanese-Language Only System which only accepts Japanese-based Nintendo Accounts. Nowhere does it say the system itself is Region Locked.
This is also wrong. Game Cards and Game Key Cards are different things. Game Cards are staying the same. Game Key Cards are something completely different. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/68415/kw/key%20card In a manner of speaking and the way it's worded makes it seem like they found the way around people not being able to sell/trade their digital copies of games. |
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AiddonValentine
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They also aren't new; a lot of sports titles do things this is exact same way with the card acting as a key while the majority of the data is downloaded. Assassin's Creed: The Rebel Collection did the same thing with Black Flag being on the cart while Rogue was a download on the Eshop |
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Vanadise
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It also doesn't say that it's not region locked, and it would be bizarre to have a 20,000 yen cheaper version of the system where the only difference is that the UI is in Japanese and you can't change it. This is obviously a measure meant to stop international scalpers from buying Japanese consoles, and there's a lot of people who won't care about the system menus being unreadable if they can still play all of their games. It's worth keeping in mind that the Switch 1 supports region locking, even if China is the only region where it's actually enabled, so this isn't unprecedented. |
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Fluwm
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Too expensive and too few games for me to be interested at this point. I guess I'll just have to hope things get better in a year or two.
Really shocked at the lack of 1st party software. Seems like even the most conservative predictions overestimated how much Nintendo had to show off today. Wild there's not even a hint of a new Mario game -- though it is kind of funny that Mario Kart is getting the open world treatment everyone expected to see in the next 3D Mario game. |
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thecowardlyantoine
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TOTK was the litmus test to see if Nintendo fans would pay 70 bucks for a hyped game. Now they're seeing if they'll pay 80. I'm sure the rest of the industry is happy though because now they can charge the same or even more because "our games look better than Nintendo's!" |
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ranran-001
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I may as well get a Switch oled before they halt production, and then wait a bit for Switch 2 oled.
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